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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/2] reap the blktapctl thread and notify the tap
| To: | Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/2] reap the blktapctl thread and notify the tapdisk backend driver to release resource like memory.. |
| From: | Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Mon, 10 May 2010 13:10:42 +0100 |
| Cc: | Jim Fehlig <JFEHLIG@xxxxxxxxxx>, "xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, James Song <JSong@xxxxxxxxxx> |
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On 10/05/2010 12:30, "Ian Jackson" <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Jan Beulich writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/2] reap the blktapctl thread
> and notify the tapdisk backend driver to release resource like memory.."):
>> The bug was with the blktap kernel driver not being able to clean up
>> after an unclean exit of qemu. [....]
>
> This is a serious kernel bug which absolutely must be fixed. There is
> no way the userland toolstack can promise that qemu won't just die.
Well it depends who/what sets up the tap context. Is it actually qemu, or is
the initial setup done by xend and then qemu merely plumbed into it?
-- Keir
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